Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780136503743
Author: MILLER-NOBLES
Publisher: RENT PEARS
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP): These are the guidelines necessary to create accounting principles for the implementation of financial information reporting.
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB): This is the organization which creates, develops, and approves accounting standards; and administrates GAAP.
To explain: Purpose of GAAP and FASB, the organization which is responsible for creation and governance of GAAP
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